# Role permissions to read \`.monitoring-\*\` indices? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\ **Created:** [November 18, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-permissions-to-read-monitoring-indices/208241 "2019-11-18T02:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IamaBase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamabase/32/69357_2.png) [@IamaBase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IamaBase)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-permissions-to-read-monitoring-indices/208241/1 "2019-11-18T02:08:49Z")
I want to read the `.monitoring-*` indices (provided by x-pack) within Grafana. What privileges do I need to grant the grafana user role? I have tried creating a role that allows `read` and `read_cross_cluster` to the index pattern `.monitoring-*`. It comes back with the error: > No date field named timestamp found If I use an admin user, however, the data source test succeeds in Grafana and it can read the index just fine. This is why I think the issue is with role permissions. ---
**Author:** ![IamaBase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamabase/32/69357_2.png) [@IamaBase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IamaBase)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-permissions-to-read-monitoring-indices/208241/2 "2019-11-18T02:19:13Z")
The answer is `read` and `view_index_metadata`. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-permissions-to-read-monitoring-indices/208241/3 "2019-12-16T02:19:14Z")
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